Chapter 14. Tabular Forms
When building applications, it's important to design screens that are user friendly and enable data to be displayed and manipulated easily. A Tabular Form is an APEX technique where multiple records can be displayed, created, updated, or deleted on a grid-like screen(s), where we can determine the amount of data displayed on each screen. It allows us to create a single unit of data manipulation, which includes all the DML actions we need, all under the same roof a single APEX application page. In this chapter, we will discuss how to build a Tabular Form in APEX. Specifically, we shall be looking at:
Creating a Tabular Form with a wizard
Creating a Tabular Form manually
Using the APEX provided
APEX_ITEMAPI to create form items
What is a Tabular Form?
A common design approach when building web applications is to list records from a database table on one page, then link to another page where the particular record can be modified (also known as drill down). Using this...
